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  • THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAN
    LEWIS MUMFORD
    Originally published in 1957, this volume compares the 20th Century transformation of human life to the revolution which swept early man into the first civilized communities. It shows how each radical new stage of human development grew out of changes in human personality and consciousness, such as the invention of language and symbols, the origins of universal religions and th...

    $860.00

  • CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
    MICHAEL D. MUMFORD, E. MICHELLE TODD
    This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors, this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations...

    $1,420.00

  • WHAT TENDS TO BE
    RANI LILL ANJUM / STEPHEN MUMFORD
    People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. Plants tend to grow and thrive in sunlight and mild temperatures. We also know that tendencies are not perfectly regular and that there are patterns in the natural world, which are reliable to a degree, but not absolute. What should we make of a world where things tend t...

    $1,240.00

  • THE COMPUTER AND THE CLERK
    ENID MUMFORD / OLIVE BANKS
    Originally published in 1967 and the result of extensive interviews and case studies, this book examines the implications of technical change. Although focussed on the early introduction of computers the kinds of problems discussed in this book are found in technical change more widely and the book therefore continues to have enduring relevance. The book is divided into three p...

    $980.00

  • BERTOLT BRECHT
    MEG MUMFORD
    Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of ...

    $1,120.00

  • TAXING CULTURE
    ANN MUMFORD
    The introduction of self-assessment for income tax collection in the late 1990s marked a striking moment of cultural convergence between the UK and the US. This book analyses the socio-political factors leading to and resulting from this fundamental change in the relationship between taxpayers and the Inland Revenue, using perspectives in comparative law and the new outlooks o...

    $1,320.00

  • UNDERSTANDING WORK-BASED LEARNING
    JOHN MUMFORD
    This important book is for anyone who wants to make the most of work-based learning: employees, employers, educationalists, policy makers and researchers. It sheds light on ways of giving full-time employees the chance to take up learning opportunities which are of the same level and rigour as those on offer to the full time student. It approaches the subject from the perspecti...

    $1,120.00

  • DAVID ARMSTRONG
    STEPHEN MUMFORD
    David (D. M.) Armstrong is one of Australia's greatest philosophers. His chief philosophical achievement has been the development of a core metaphysical programme, embracing the topics of universals, laws, modality and facts: a naturalistic metaphysics, consistent with a scientific view of the natural world. It is primarily through his owrk that Australian philosophy, and Austr...

    $1,160.00

  • SO YOU QUALIFIED ABROAD
    MANDY FRY / RICHARD MUMFORD
    'We recognise that the journey for you as an overseas medical graduate (OMG) through GP training is likely to be more difficult than for a UK graduate, and so the primary aim of this book is to help you navigate that journey. We hope that through this book we will equip you to be a better UK general practitioner than you might otherwise be. An inevitable by-product of that will...

    $1,380.00

  • THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS METAFILE
    L.R. HENDERSON / A.M. MUMFORD
    The Computer Graphics Metafile deals with the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) standard and covers topics ranging from the structure and contents of a metafile to CGM functionality, metafile elements, and real-world applications of CGM. Binary Encoding, Character Encoding, application profiles, and implementations are also discussed. This book is comprised of 18 chapters divid...

    $970.00

  • INTERNATIONAL LAW, SECURITY AND ETHICS
    HEHIR AIDAN, NATASHA KUHRT AND ANDREW MUMFORD
    This book examines the different ways in which the laws governing the use of force and the conduct of warfare have become subject to intense scrutiny and contestation since the initiation of the war on terror. Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of security challenges has changed radically and this change has been recognised by the UN, governments and academics around the...

    $640.00

  • THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF IRREGULAR WARFARE
    MUMFORD, ANDREW / REIS, BRUNO C
    This book offers an analysis of key individuals who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of counterinsurgency (COIN). Insurgencies have become the dominant form of armed conflict around the world today. The perceptible degeneration of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan into insurgent quagmires has sparked a renewal of academic and military interest in the t...

    $1,260.00

  • PATTERNS OF LIFE HISTORY
    MICHAEL D. MUMFORD / GARNETT S. STOKES / WILLIAM A. OWENS / GARNETT STOKES
    This work summarizes an ongoing longitudinal study concerned with the nature of human differences as manifest in peoples' life histories. The traditional models for the description of human differences are reviewed, then contrasted with the presentation of alternative models. This volume is also one of the few to investigate different approaches to measurement procedures. Pract...

    $1,380.00

  • WATCHING SPORT
    STEPHEN MUMFORD
    Do we watch sport for pure dumb entertainment? While some people might do so, Stephen Mumford argues that it can be watched in other ways. Sport can be both a subject of high aesthetic values and a valid source for our moral education. The philosophy of sport has tended to focus on participation, but this book instead examines the philosophical issues around watching sport. Far...

    $1,560.00

  • THE COUNTER-INSURGENCY MYTH
    ANDREW MUMFORD
    This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of British military experiences in the post-war era and endeavours to unpack their performance. During the twentieth century counter-insurgency assumed the status of one of the British military’s fortes. A wealth of asymmetric warfare experience was accumulated after the Second World War as ...

    $1,320.00

  • PATTERN THEORY
    DAVID MUMFORD / AGNÈS DESOLNEUX
    Pattern theory is a distinctive approach to the analysis of all forms of real-world signals. At its core is the design of a large variety of probabilistic models whose samples reproduce the look and feel of the real signals, their patterns, and their variability. Bayesian statistical inference then allows you to apply these models in the analysis of new signals. This book treat...

    $1,300.00

  • LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
    JEFFREY GOLD / RICHARD THORPE / ALAN MUMFORD
    How do you measure managers and leaders? How do you assess their development needs? Leadership and Management Development covers these and other key topics that form the requirements for the CIPD Level 7 Advanced module of the same name. Retitled and revised to focus on leadership as well as management, the book includes multiple perspectives from those who have either experien...

    $1,449.00

  • LEADERSHIP 101
    MICHAEL D. MUMFORD
    What are the relevant personality and motivational traits of good (and bad) leaders? Do leaders possess different types of intellectual capacities? How do effective leaders behave and what kinds of people follow them? What are the contextual/situational factors that give rise to leaders? How is leadership influenced by gender, cultural differences, and social networks? Professo...

    $692.00

  • LAWS IN NATURE
    STEPHEN MUMFORD
    Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws. His book begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature. The discussion addresses questions currently being debated by metaphysicians such as whether the laws of nature are necessary or contingent and whether a property can be identified independently of its causal role. ...

    $1,560.00

  • TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS OF THE FACE
    PETER W. HALLINAN / GAILE GORDON / A. L. YUILLE / PETER GIBLIN / DAVID MUMFORD
    The human face is perhaps the most familiar and easily recognized object in the world, yet both its three-dimensional shape and its two-dimensional images are complex and hard to characterize. This book develops the vocabulary of ridges and parabolic curves, of illumination eigenfaces and elastic warpings for describing the perceptually salient fea ...

    $1,340.00

  • HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL CREATIVITY
    MICHAEL D. MUMFORD
    Handbook of Organizational Creativity is designed to explain creativity and innovation in organizations. This handbook contains 28 chapters dedicated to particularly complex phenomena, all written by leading experts in the field of organizational creativity. The format of the book follows the multi-level structure of creativity in organizations where creativity takes place at t...

    $1,994.00

  • THE CULTURE OF CITIES
    LEWIS MUMFORD
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a so...

    $212.00

  • COACHING PARA DUMMIES
    MUMFORD
    Agotado

    $149.00

  • LA BIBLIA DEL MASAJE
    MUMFORD SUSAN
    Agotado

    $325.00

  • MANUAL DEL KARMA
    MUMFORD
    Agotado

    $139.00

  • COACHING PARA DUMMIES
    JENI MUMFORD
    El coaching es una herramienta eficaz que te impulsa a la acción y te permite alcanzar tus objetivos de vida.Te ayuda a superar los miedos y las creencias que te separan de esos objetivos y, por lo tanto, facilita el acceso a la sabiduría interior, donde están las respuestas que necesitas para maximizar tu potencial de desarrollo. ...
    Agotado

    $1,160.96

  • LA BIBLIA DEL MASAJE
    MUMFORD SUSAN
    El masaje es una terapia excelente que proporciona una agradable sensación de bienestar, reduce el estrés e incluso alivia y neutraliza los síntomas de trastornos comunes como el dolor de espalda y la ansiedad, entre otros muchos, y que además podemos compartir con compañeros, amigos y familiares.Esta guía completa te muestra todas las técnicas que necesitas conocer para dar un...
    Agotado

    $480.00